Notes

This supreme quality is felt by the artist when the esthetic image is first conceived in his imagination. The mind in that mysterious instant Shelley likened beautifully to a fading coal. The instant wherein that supreme quality of beauty, the clear radiance of the esthetic image, is apprehended luminously by the mind which has been arrested by its wholeness and fascinated by its harmony is the luminous silent stasis of esthetic pleasure, a spiritual state very like to that cardiac condition which the Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani, using a phrase almost as beautiful as Shelley’s, called the enchantment of the heart. (5.1.149)- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.

The title of Fallen Angel is from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: “Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.”

In Oomph and Mana, from Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss: “And when American slang says that a woman has got ‘oomph,’ it is not certain, if we call to mind the sacred and taboo-laden atmosphere which permeates sexual life, in America even more than elsewhere, that we are very far removed from the meaning of mana.”

The Human Brain Sees Women as Parts and Men as Whole: title from article in Scientific America: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-brains-see-men-as-whole-women-as-parts/

In Empire of Trauma: “where hides and broken limbs mark the extrovert virility of the hunter,” is from Empire and the Animal Body; Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction by John Miller.